Ezekiel 32:11
New International Version
“’For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “’The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.

New Living Translation
For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.

English Standard Version
“For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!

King James Bible
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

New King James Version
‘For thus says the Lord GOD: “The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

New American Standard Bible
For the Lord GOD says this: “The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.

NASB 1995
For thus says the Lord GOD, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

NASB 1977
For thus says the Lord GOD, “The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

Legacy Standard Bible
For thus says Lord Yahweh, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

Amplified Bible
For thus says the Lord GOD, “The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.

Christian Standard Bible
“ ‘For this is what the Lord GOD says: The sword of Babylon’s king will come against you!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For this is what the Lord GOD says: The sword of Babylon’s king will come against you!

American Standard Version
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

Contemporary English Version
The king of Babylonia is coming to attack you, king of Egypt!

English Revised Version
For thus saith the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
" 'This is what the Almighty LORD says: The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.

Good News Translation
The Sovereign LORD says to the king of Egypt, "You will face the sword of the king of Babylonia.

International Standard Version
"This is what the Lord GOD says: 'The army of the king of Babylon will attack you.

Majority Standard Bible
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!

NET Bible
"'For this is what the sovereign LORD says: "'The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.

New Heart English Bible
"For thus says the Lord GOD: 'The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

World English Bible
For the Lord Yahweh says: “The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For thus said Lord YHWH: A sword of the king of Babylon enters you,

Young's Literal Translation
For thus said the Lord Jehovah: A sword of the king of Babylon entereth thee,

Smith's Literal Translation
For thus said the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babel shall come into thee.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,

Catholic Public Domain Version
For thus says the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon will come to you.

New American Bible
For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.

New Revised Standard Version
For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come against you.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
For thus says the LORD God: The sword of Babylon shall come upon you.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: ‘The sword of the King of Babel will come upon you
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For thus saith the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Lament for Pharaoh King of Egypt
10I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’ 11For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you! 12I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 46:13-26
This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: / “Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.’ / Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down. ...

Isaiah 19:1-4
This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them. / “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. / Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists. ...

Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

Isaiah 10:5-6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Jeremiah 43:10-13
Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them. / He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword. / I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed. ...

Isaiah 7:18-20
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria. / And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes. / On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.

Jeremiah 50:17-18
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.” / Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 36:1-2
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah. / And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

Daniel 2:37-38
You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory. / Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

Isaiah 14:4-6
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! / The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. / It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

Jeremiah 27:6-7
So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him. / All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Isaiah 20:1-6
Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it, / the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot. / Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush, ...

Jeremiah 51:20-23
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. / With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver. / With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden. ...

Isaiah 8:7-8
the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks. / It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

Jeremiah 21:7
‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’


Treasury of Scripture

For thus said the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

The sword

Ezekiel 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Ezekiel 30:11
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 31:11
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

they shall

Ezekiel 29:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

Isaiah 25:2,3
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built…

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For this is what the Lord GOD says
This phrase underscores the authority and divine origin of the message. The Hebrew term for "Lord GOD" is "Adonai Yahweh," emphasizing both the sovereignty and the covenantal relationship God has with His people. In the prophetic literature, this introduction is a solemn reminder that the words to follow are not merely human predictions but divine declarations. It calls the audience to attention, urging them to heed the message with the seriousness it deserves.

The sword of the king of Babylon
The "sword" symbolizes war, judgment, and destruction. In the ancient Near Eastern context, the sword was a common metaphor for military power and divine judgment. The "king of Babylon" refers to Nebuchadnezzar, a historical figure known for his military conquests and the expansion of the Babylonian Empire. Historically, Babylon was a dominant power during Ezekiel's time, and its king was often seen as an instrument of God's judgment against nations, including Israel and Egypt. This phrase indicates that the impending judgment is not random but orchestrated by God through a specific earthly power.

Will come against you
This phrase conveys inevitability and certainty. The Hebrew verb used here implies a future action that is assured. The "you" in this context refers to Egypt, as the surrounding passages in Ezekiel 32 address the fate of Egypt and its Pharaoh. The prophecy is a warning of impending doom, emphasizing that Egypt's pride and reliance on its own strength will not save it from the divine judgment executed through Babylon. This serves as a broader theological lesson on the futility of opposing God's will and the ultimate sovereignty of God over all nations.

Verses 11-14. - The sword of the King of Babylon, etc. The effects of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion are now described in language which seems plain enough, but in which we may read between the lines an allusive reference to the previous symbolism. Thus in Ver. 13 we are thrown back upon the thought of the "troubled waters" of Ver. 2. The Nile was no longer to be troubled by the foot of beasts; the streams of justice were no longer to be defiled with a selfish corruption, but were to run smooth and calm, even as the "rivers of oil" which were the symbols of ethical blessedness (Job 29:6; Deuteronomy 32:13). So Ewald and Keil, for once agreeing. The rule of Nebuchadnezzar was to be a righteous rule, in spite of its severity. I am unable, however, to follow these commentators further in seeing in the words a prediction of the Messianic kingdom. The Egyptians were to "know the Lord," as the other nations addressed by Ezekiel were to know him, as a righteous Judge, not as yet as a Deliverer (comp. Ezekiel 28:26; Ezekiel 29:21; Ezekiel 30:26).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

this is what
כֹּ֥ה (kōh)
Adverb
Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now

the Lord
אֲדֹנָ֣י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

GOD
יְהוִ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

says:
אָמַ֖ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘The sword
חֶ֥רֶב (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

of the king
מֶֽלֶךְ־ (me·leḵ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Babylon
בָּבֶ֖ל (bā·ḇel)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city

will come against you!
תְּבוֹאֶֽךָ׃ (tə·ḇō·w·’e·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go


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